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County to begin last phase of gravel hauling on Monday

Jon Lloyd

Staff Writer

The Boone County Secondary Roads Department will begin the third and final phase of its annual gravel operation on Monday.

Boone County Engineer Bob Kieffer said that motorists should expect heavy truck traffic on 150th Street between T Avenue, which is also State Highway 17, and W Avenue from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. for approximately seven to 10 days, weather permitting, once the operation begins in Harrison Township.

Trucks from Stratford Sand and Gravel will be hauling gravel from the Leininger Pit off 150th Street to the county’s secondary roads, where it will be graded by county road-graders.

Chuck Becker, owner of Stratford Sand and Gravel “has been a gravel guy for many years,” Kieffer said. “He runs a good operation.”

Kieffer said the secondary roads are inspected in the spring to determine the amount of gravel they might need. Nearly all the county’s secondary roads will receive some gravel during the county’s annual gravel hauling operation, he said.

“What we do each spring,” Kieffer said, “we have a gentleman doing this for years. He drives the roads and comes up with how many loads per mile each road needs. We tally that up and figure out how much (gravel) we need to crush and need to haul, and we have a contractor do that.”

The first two phases of the operation, the first one out of the county’s gravel pit southwest of Luther and the second from the Lowman Pit near Moingona, have been completed. Those operations went well, Kieffer said.